JohnnyRangefinder
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I am completely flabbergasted -- I don't think there has been an object I've treated more kindly than my recently aquired M6ttl -- I felt as though I was being near-religious keeping the beauty under my coat, re-capping the lens, etc...
I noticed whilst changing lenses the other day a burn mark above the 'white patch' -- it looked like a solar eclipse with the flare at one point along the circumference. I quickly shot off the rest of the roll.
Investigation quickly exposed a good-sized burn and light-leak through the first curtain. AAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!
Well, this is not a tirade against cloth shutters, or build-quality or any such nonsense -- While I cannot for the life of me figure out when this freak-of-timing-aperture-opening-focus-position-why-did-I-not-have-my-lens-cap-on-nightmare occured, I know it must be the result of my own error.
It is shocking how quickly this can happen when all the variables are 'right'. I had never left the camera on my car seat, rarely left it on a table -- it was essentially living under my coat, slung across my chest.
As I do the 'forensics' I am left to wonder how obliquely can the light enter the lens and still do damage to the shutter -- the burn is rather off-center, not even on the meter-patch. would I be correct in assuming the light that caused the burn was not directly entering the lens?
I did some searching on the forums and seemed to understand that burns are more likely to occur with a wider, fast lens.
I assume I probably had my 28/1.9 on it and placed it on an outside table at the coffee shop in between shots around noon on a blazing-hot, no-ozone-layer-brutal-UV, bright sunny So. Cal day -- and in a handful of seconds I no doubt made myself a few hundred dollars poorer -- I was already doing a good enough job making myself broke 🙂
I called my friend at the camera store and he said they could send it to Leica for repair. From reading the forums, it seems like there is a 7 week backlog of repairs in America right now. Is DAG or Sherry able to replace a ttl shutter curtain? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I would hate to be without the M for that long.
Well, thanks for letting me share --
Sasha
I noticed whilst changing lenses the other day a burn mark above the 'white patch' -- it looked like a solar eclipse with the flare at one point along the circumference. I quickly shot off the rest of the roll.
Investigation quickly exposed a good-sized burn and light-leak through the first curtain. AAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!
Well, this is not a tirade against cloth shutters, or build-quality or any such nonsense -- While I cannot for the life of me figure out when this freak-of-timing-aperture-opening-focus-position-why-did-I-not-have-my-lens-cap-on-nightmare occured, I know it must be the result of my own error.
It is shocking how quickly this can happen when all the variables are 'right'. I had never left the camera on my car seat, rarely left it on a table -- it was essentially living under my coat, slung across my chest.
As I do the 'forensics' I am left to wonder how obliquely can the light enter the lens and still do damage to the shutter -- the burn is rather off-center, not even on the meter-patch. would I be correct in assuming the light that caused the burn was not directly entering the lens?
I did some searching on the forums and seemed to understand that burns are more likely to occur with a wider, fast lens.
I assume I probably had my 28/1.9 on it and placed it on an outside table at the coffee shop in between shots around noon on a blazing-hot, no-ozone-layer-brutal-UV, bright sunny So. Cal day -- and in a handful of seconds I no doubt made myself a few hundred dollars poorer -- I was already doing a good enough job making myself broke 🙂
I called my friend at the camera store and he said they could send it to Leica for repair. From reading the forums, it seems like there is a 7 week backlog of repairs in America right now. Is DAG or Sherry able to replace a ttl shutter curtain? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I would hate to be without the M for that long.
Well, thanks for letting me share --
Sasha
